| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 189 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
SUNY series, the philosophy of education |
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SUNY series in philosophy of education.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The "naissance" and "renaissance" of American philosophy -- Dewey's reconstruction of the tradition -- 1. The life-world -- Lived experience -- The fallacy of intellectualism -- The primacy of interaction -- Temporality and possibility -- Responsibility -- Evaluating philosophy -- 2. Thinking -- Against epistemology -- Copernican revolutions -- Spectators or inquirers? -- The traits of inquiry -- 3. Democracy -- Winthrop, Locke, and Dewey -- Conjoint, communicated experience -- Freedom as growth -- Equality as individuality -- 4. The public -- Mass or public? -- Problems of the public -- Conditions for reviving the public -- An effective public -- 5. Educating -- A simple credo -- Beyond modern man -- Occupations -- Education is an end in itself -- Education and democracy -- Moral education -- 6. Making -- Art versus arts -- Experience -- Imagination, communication, and expression -- Distraction versus participation -- 7. Devotion -- Religious versus religion -- The :load" carried by traditional religions -- Faith -- God -- Cooperation -- 8. Conclusion -- Postmodern or polytemporal? -- Dewey's relevance |
| Summary |
Written in a manner accessible to non-specialists, this book provides an introduction to all areas central to John Dewey's philosophy: aesthetics, social and political philosophy, education, the philosophy of religion, and theory of knowledge. Boisvert situates Dewey as a thinker who could appreciate the advance of science while remaining an "empirical naturalist" committed to the revelatory powers of lived experience |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Dewey, John, 1859-1952
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| SUBJECT |
Dewey, John, 1859-1952 fast |
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Dewey, John 1859-1952 gnd |
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Dewey, John. swd |
| Subject |
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Philosophie
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Filosofie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
96052291 |
| ISBN |
0585076855 |
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9780585076850 |
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